jEdit for Windows 4.5.0

4.5 out of 5 stars 4.5 (102 votes)

(January 31, 2012)

Windows (All) / Open Source / 6,299 downloads

jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java.

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    jEdit's Development Team

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    jEdit

  • Latest Changes

    - Performance improvements, as well as a "large file" mode for handling extra large files

    - Edit using Elastic tabstops, set from Global Options - Editing, Buffer Options, or via buffer-local properties

    - Lots of old deprecated APIs were removed. Some plugins may be broken as a result

    - Choose color ordering for subpixel antialiasing (Global Options - Text Area - Anti-Aliased Smoothed Text) (Feature #2989209)

    - Desktop System Tray icon to indicate when jEdit is running (Feature #1657143)

    - It is now possible to switch look and feel without restarting jEdit

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    anonymouscowturd

    Reviewing 4.3 (Jan 4, 2010)

    Wow! 5 Years in the making. Hate the sub-glacial development speed, but then it is already very mature so i guess that doesn't reduce it's usability or functionality. At least it is good, or rather very good. By far the best editor (not including IDEs) but it is heavy weight. Knocks spots off Notepad++, and that's saying something.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    anonymouscowturd

    Reviewing 4.3 pre17 (Jul 7, 2009)

    This was and still is a brilliant editor. The only issue i have with this is the speed of development which is a tad slower than continental drift. It's been about 2 years since the last major update if i recall correctly. That said this is still absolutely solid i've never had any big problems with it other than the odd plugin that is outdated.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Nahkanunna

    Reviewing 4.3pre16 Beta (Nov 20, 2008)

    roj: use the following to start it up: (with modifications to your specific environment) there's some issues with paint speed, but this at least cures it for me:

    E:\Progs\base\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin\javaw.exe -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -Xms64M -Xmx192M -jar "e:\progs\jedit.jar" -reuseview

    Quality work as always, plugins enhance it the same way Firefox, TB etc. NIce

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    anonymouscowturd

    Reviewing 4.3pre16 Beta (Nov 20, 2008)

    @Roj,

    if you turn off the installed theme and just use the Windows native theme everything is fine. You're right though, if you do use any of the skin themes e.g. Metal etc, it really does slow down the repaint.

    @Nighted,
    Yeah, it is really unfair. And truthfully speaking i think the .Net framework is streets ahead of Java as well.
    Anway for this editor if you spend some time configuring it i think you'll find it is simply head and shoulders above any of the other OS native editors out there.

    Back to the review or sorts. This version seems to have a few problems updating plugins. Everyelse though seems fine.

  5. 3 out of 5 stars
    Nighted

    Reviewing 4.3pre16 Beta (Nov 19, 2008)

    Blah...I hate java apps. Tried this before, it's horrible! Ok if you're on Linux though, as if you really have much else to chose from.

    One thing I never see is people complaining about having to install java, but all the time people b**** about .NET.

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